Preferred Adverbs

Zorya · 09-04-2019 8:47am #1

Though ''preferred pronouns'' have not made such a huge inroads here ...yet, a friend in the US tells me they absolutely infest public fora there, from the local environmental committee all the way up to campuses and government etc. She had the idea of moving towards Preferred Adverbs as an alternative. I love this!

So, for now my Preferred Adverbs are Deliciously and Astonishingly (though I may add Marvellously later today....it depends how I feel.)

What are your Preferred Adverbs, fellow citizens?

kneemos · 09-04-2019 8:49am

The Jaysus.

09-04-2019 8:52am

I hope all of these people die off before they have a chance to spawn.

antodeco · 09-04-2019 8:54am

JayZeus wrote: »

I hope all of these people die off before they have a chance to spawn.

I willingly hope all of these amazing people marvellously die off before they have a wonderful chance to magically spawn.

Bob Harris · 09-04-2019 9:00am

Zorya wrote: »

Though ''preferred pronouns'' have not made such a huge inroads here ...yet, a friend in the US tells me they absolutely infest public fora there, from the local environmental committee all the way up to campuses and government etc. She had the idea of moving towards Preferred Adverbs as an alternative. I love this!

So, for now my Preferred Adverbs are Deliciously and Astonishingly (though I may add Marvellously later today....it depends how I feel.)

What are your Preferred Adverbs, fellow citizens?

Can you put those in a sentence please?

Zorya · 09-04-2019 9:00am

You could actually just offer your lovely preferred adverbs?

So far,

Bitingly
Suspiciously
Sarcastically
Doom-sayingly

and well okay ...Creatively

Zorya · 09-04-2019 9:03am

Bob Harris wrote: »

Can you put those in a sentence please?

Zorya deliciously / astonishingly / marvellously created a thread on boards. What's not to like?

skooterblue2 · 09-04-2019 9:07am

JayZeus wrote: »

I hope all of these people die off before they have a chance to spawn.

Dont laugh, those people will be expected to pay our pensions..... however I feel my pension is going to be paid through the medium of poetry and interpretive dance.

B0jangles · 09-04-2019 9:08am

Adjectives to describe the kind of thread where people import innocuous things from far, far away to get upset about?

Tedious

Repetitive

Asinine

Zorya · 09-04-2019 9:13am

B0jangles wrote: »

Adjectives to describe the kind of thread where people import innocuous things from far, far away to get upset about?

Tedious

Repetitive

Asinine

I deliciously like your commitment to the idea, but this innocuous thing has yet to be created so cannot be imported, in fact I astonishingly would like to make it a new trend. And I am marvellously not upset about it, I astonishingly/deliciously like the idea.

seamus · 09-04-2019 9:14am

I was speaking to a US recruiter a few weeks back, who said that his preferred pronouns were "him & he", and asked me if I was happy to be called "him & he". Naturally I don't get upset about this stuff, it's a very minor thing which shows a shred of respect to people who might have a different perspective on life and struggle because of it.

Of course, I responded in true Irish fashion, "Nah, I'm not fussy". And there was a short pause. He didn't say anything, but I'm pretty sure he thought I was taking the piss out of the question ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Zorya · 09-04-2019 9:16am

seamus wrote: »

I was speaking to a US recruiter a few weeks back, who said that his preferred pronouns were "him & he", and asked me if I was happy to be called "him & he". Naturally I don't get upset about this stuff, it's a very minor thing which shows a shred of respect to people who might have a different perspective on life and struggle because of it.

Of course, I responded in true Irish fashion, "Nah, I'm not fussy". And there was a short pause. He didn't say anything, but I'm pretty sure he thought I was taking the piss out of the question ��*♂️

Naturally and Irishly, then, with perhaps Pretty as an outlier? Can I put you down for that?

edit - prettily, of course

Bob Harris · 09-04-2019 9:28am

Zorya wrote: »

Zorya deliciously / astonishingly / marvellously created a thread on boards. What's not to like?

I am unsurprisingly unconvinced.

Yurt2 · 09-04-2019 9:38am

Not an adverb thingy but it really annoys me when I hear English middle class mid-20s types who say "to be fair" (pronounced 'to be feh') all the time.

E.g: "I got the Trans-Siberian as far as Vladivostok, and to be feh, it was unbelievable, to be feh."

Usually a couple of years out of Durham or St Andrews University (too thick to go to Oxbridge) and are trainee management consultants placed in some spiv industry in London. Vote Labour for now, but will morph into Tories overnight on their 30th birthday. Go surfing in Cornwall during the summer, and skiing in St. Mortiz with the guys from uni in the winter.

I needed to get that off my chest.

Zorya · 09-04-2019 9:44am

Yurt! Preferred Adverbs - Scathingly, Expressively. Perhaps even Accurately.
Welcome, Yurt!

Hector Savage · 09-04-2019 10:53am

seamus wrote: »

I was speaking to a US recruiter a few weeks back, who said that his preferred pronouns were "him & he", and asked me if I was happy to be called "him & he". Naturally I don't get upset about this stuff, it's a very minor thing which shows a shred of respect to people who might have a different perspective on life and struggle because of it.

Of course, I responded in true Irish fashion, "Nah, I'm not fussy". And there was a short pause. He didn't say anything, but I'm pretty sure he thought I was taking the piss out of the question ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Poor guy is probably legally obliged to say this, otherwise he might "misgender" someone which is an act of violence. :rolleyes:

jimgoose · 09-04-2019 11:02am

seamus wrote: »

I was speaking to a US recruiter a few weeks back, who said that his preferred pronouns were "him & he", and asked me if I was happy to be called "him & he". Naturally I don't get upset about this stuff, it's a very minor thing which shows a shred of respect to people who might have a different perspective on life and struggle because of it.

Of course, I responded in true Irish fashion, "Nah, I'm not fussy". And there was a short pause. He didn't say anything, but I'm pretty sure he thought I was taking the piss out of the question ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Scrumptiously, you may call me "Him & He" if I can call you a cunnox.

Badly Drunk Boy · 09-04-2019 11:04am

Hector Savage wrote: »

Poor guy is probably legally obliged to say this, otherwise he might "misgender" someone which is an act of violence. :rolleyes:

A lad that I work with has "(Pronouns:He/Him)" in his e-mail sig. Head-wreckingly.

antix80 · 09-04-2019 11:06am

Zorya wrote: »

What are your Preferred Adverbs, fellow citizens?

Surely you mean adjectives? Makes a bit more sense.

MrFresh · 09-04-2019 11:20am

Well done, op. That'll marvelously show 'em.

Zorya · 09-04-2019 12:40pm

antix80 wrote: »

Surely you mean adjectives? Makes a bit more sense.

No. Astonishingly I don't. Adverbs are more fun.

Zorya · 09-04-2019 12:43pm

jimgoose wrote: »

Scrumptiously, you may call me "Him & He" if I can call you a cunnox.

Scrumptiously is an enviable adverb, but to pair it with deliciously might be overkill for me.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 09-04-2019 6:54pm

Yurt! wrote: »

Not an adverb thingy but it really annoys me when I hear English middle class mid-20s types who say "to be fair" (pronounced 'to be feh') all the time.

E.g: "I got the Trans-Siberian as far as Vladivostok, and to be feh, it was unbelievable, to be feh."

Usually a couple of years out of Durham or St Andrews University (too thick to go to Oxbridge) and are trainee management consultants placed in some spiv industry in London. Vote Labour for now, but will morph into Tories overnight on their 30th birthday. Go surfing in Cornwall during the summer, and skiing in St. Mortiz with the guys from uni in the winter.

I needed to get that off my chest.

To be fair, to be fair is also used here in the Emerald Isle. Cork people use it a lot. Don’t mind it myself but I never use it.

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